LONG BEACH — It was a rainy December on the Long Beach Peninsula, with a precipitation total of 15.87 inches recorded at the Washington State University weather station on Pioneer Road.

The wettest days were Christmas (2.97 inches), with 3.49 inches on Dec. 17, and 1.49 inches on Dec. 7. Localized thunderstorms may account for some of the high totals. There was little or no rain on 11 days of the month.

Pacific County’s rainiest December on record is an almost unbelievable 40.22 inches in 1933, according to NOAA’s Centers for Environmental Information. The wettest recent year was 2015 with 22.05 inches. The 1901-2023 average for the month is 14.25 inches.

In Naselle, 18.43 inches were recorded at the Naselle Salmon Hatchery this December, with especially wet days on Dec. 17 (2.01 inches) and Dec. 23 (1.53 inches). Naselle’s December 2024 total was fairly typical of the month.

Long Beach temperatures ranged from a low of 26 degrees on Dec. 3 to a high of 61.6 degrees on Dec. 20. Nighttime lows averaged 39.6 degrees and daytime highs averaged 53.3 degrees.

Naselle lows of 24 degrees were recorded on clear nights Dec. 2 and 3. The month’s high of 59 degrees was set on Dec. 19.

Long Beach’s windiest day was Dec. 17 with a gust of 38.2 mph at the relatively sheltered Pioneer Road station. It was windier elsewhere during the Dec. 17-18 storm, with Cape Disappointment recording 67 mph and the Astoria-Megler Bridge hitting 80 mph. Cape D recorded 68 mph on Dec. 26.